Riding the Iron Rooster

”[Theroux’s] books have enriched the travel literature of this century…China, with its guard down, its buttons undone, and its fingers greasy, looks even more magical with a little of its mystery revealed.” USA Today”[A] very funny, beautifully written, wonderfully observant, and deeply insightful description of the vagaries of life and politics in China.” – Conde Nast Traveler“Fascinating…the portrait that emerges is a luminous, almost uncanny, and situationally accurate one. Theroux is particularly good at catching the surreal quality of China.” The Miami Herald“Theroux’s genius is in his clear-eyed rendition of a fresh world and the deeper observations he attaches to it.” The Chicago Tribune

Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1941, and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967. He wrote his next three novels, Fong and the Indians, Girls at Play and Jungle Lovers, after a five-year stay in Africa. He subsequently taught at the University of Singapore, and during his three years there produced a collection of short stories, Sinning with Annie, and highly praised novel Saint Jack. His other publications include The Black House (1974), a novel; The Great Railway Bazaar- By Train Through Asia (1975), an account of his journey by train from London to Tokyo and back; The Family Arsenal (1976); The Consul’s File (1977); Picture Palace (1978; winnner of the Whitread Literary Award); A Christmans Card (1978; The Old Patagonian Express (1979); World’s End and Other Stories (1980); London Snow (1980); The Mosquito Coats, which was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year for 1981 and the joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; The London Embassy (1982); The Kingdom by the Sea (1983); Doctor Slaughter (1985); Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985); The Imperial Way (1985); O-Zone (1986); Riding the Iron Rooster (1988); My Secret History (1989) and Chicago Loop (1990).Paul Theroux is married with two children and divides his time between London and Cape Cod.

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